Halloween Tunes

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Posted // October 25,2012 - What are there, like, three major holidays that come with their own music? Everyone knows the routine at Christmas: Let’s all sing songs that celebrate the corporate mascots of Christianity and Coca-Cola. Whoopee, pass the pumpkin pie and s’mores. We get sappy, jingoistic patriotic songs on Independence Day—thank you, er, screw you, Lee Greenwood. And on Halloween, we do the “Monster Mash.”
The tune, performed by Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers, is almost as ubiquitous as “I’m Proud to Be an American” and “Jingle Bells,” but it’s a lot more fun. There’s something about cartoonish monsters getting together for keg stands and key parties, huh? It humanizes them.
Really, we created monsters to get our kids to behave—and explain man’s inherent evil. You know how dictators like to use the specter of fear to get the proletariat to be good little serfs. Perhaps that’s why we like to see innocuous versions of terrifying things, like the gigs and gigs of Halloween music you find on the ’net? There’s nothing to be afraid of, folks. Except the RIAA.